Both Uses of
diversion
in
Catch-22
- He was much better acquainted with the fate of a tribe of first cousins who had wandered away north in a diversionary movement and pushed inadvertently into Canada.†
Chpt 5 *
- There was a huge, giddy crowd of men who were avid for any diversion, but the cat turned chicken the moment Yossarian released him and fled from Hungry Joe ignominiously like a yellow dog.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(diversion as in: a diversion to draw troops away) a distraction -- something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else